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In situations of armed conflict, people often lose contact with their families. They get separated by hostilities, changing frontlines or while fleeing their homes. Sometimes years or even decades pass before they find their missing loved ones. In the meantime, their wait continues in anguish and uncertainty.

In an operation that mobilised the ICRC, the Pakistan Red Crescent Society and the Austrian Red Cross, a father got to meet his daughter for the very first time. Watch how three-year-old Zainab finally got to hug her father in Salzburg, Austria, after growing up in Islamabad, Pakistan.